Time out, 1 minute/year of age. We do a point system. 1 point for being basically good for a day. If there is a timeout during the day then no point. When he gets 5 points then he can watch a short video (pixar short film type). But he can get extra points for doing nice or thoughtful things. Let me just say that he doesn't watch video much. :)
Give kids a lot of freedom to explore a wide area of interests, with some positive guidance. Insist on the essentials, such as school work. Do not push kids into things that have no intrinsic values when they grow up, such as typical 老中 activities - piano, drawing, etc, if your kids have no interest or natural talent.
Yes,she could but not alone and too far away from adult or out of sight.
I was upset because we went over safety issue many times. We started talking to her about safety when she was 5 and she knows all of the things /rules of what to do, what not to do. She’s been to safety training class and reads books about safety from time to time. As recent as two weeks ago, we went over this exact issue -walk to Afterschool. I know some parents let their kids walk to/from school without accompanying adult under age of 13(She knows some of these kids and I think it is why she thinks she can do it too) but I am not one of those parents and I am not comfortable with her doing that at this age. She understands perfectly that she is not allowed to walk alone and the reasons why she should not walk back to Afterschool etc. Yet she still did it with a very poor excuse. "my umbrella was broken and I didn't want to wait in the rain and got all wet."
She goes to drawing classes because that’s what she loves. It’s just she has the tendency of drawing what she “likes” but not what teacher teaches when she has her own idea of what should be in her picture and how the picture should look. She just doesn’t always draws as directed or make corrections as pointed out. I am not saying she shouldn’t be creative but every teacher has their own rules and all of the children in the class need to respect that. That was why the teacher concluded she was 太自由主义,not that she didn’t like the drawing class and misbehaved.
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